This is the second part of what is now going to be a 3-part series because there is alway more to find out about how we came to the place where we are now in time related to how the new narrative was shaped. RS lives near a bridge on South Main Street in Woonsocket, and said that it clearly wasn’t built recently, and even has a plaque stating it was “re-fixed” in the late 1800s. RS brought Woonsocket, Rhode Island to my attention, with the comment that Rhode Island has tons of massive polygonal masonry walls everywhere, and giant granite masonry on top of bigger and older giant block masonry. Known as the Pilgrim Monument, it is located in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and was said to have been built between 19 to commemorate the first landfall of the pilgrims in 1620, and the signing of the Mayflower Compact, the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony, in November of 1620 when the “Mayflower” was anchored in Provincetown Harbor.Ī contest was said to have been held to design the monument, and the winning entry was a design based upon the Torre del Mangia in Siena, Italy, which was said to have been built between 13. This is a good place to insert AF’s suggestion of looking into the Provincetown Monument. We are told that Father Kino was a Jesuit, missionary, geographer, explorer, cartographer, and astronomer, who was born in northern Italy, and spent the last 24-years of his life in modern-day Sonora in Mexico and southern Arizona in the United States… I received a comment about Father Eusebio Kino, who has been referred to as Arizona’s first rancher. In the fourth part, and probably last part, of the series, I will be looking into the rise of computers and video games.īefore I go into the main feature of Early Radio and Television, I want to pass along a piece of information concerning an individual in our historical narrative about which I had no knowledge of.
I have already looked into the role of dime westerns, old west shows, and western movies in shaping the new narrative in the first part of the series and in the second part I looked at the role of candy, dime museums, circuses, the early movie industry, and daredevils. This is the third-part about early radio and television of what now is going to be a four-part series focusing on how we came to the place where we are today related to the origins and development of a new culture and a new narrative about our history.